Sheep is a horror novel by British author Simon Maginn, originally published in 1994 and reissued in 1997. It is now out of print. The book provided the basis for the 2005 film The Dark, although the plot changed drastically in the conversion from book to film. It was Maginn's debut novel. A young family moves to rural Wales to renovate a farmhouse and recover from the drowning death of their daughter, Ruthie. While there, the family witnesses a series of terrible mutilations of sheep by an unknown perpetrator. Paperback, Corgi, 1994. ISBN 0-552-14122-4 Hardbound, Severn House, 1995. ISBN 0-7278-4829-1 Paperback, White Wolf, 1997. ISBN 1-56504-910-1 Sheep at FantasticFiction
Adaptations (1)
Sheep was adapted into a 2005 film.
The Dark2005 · film · 93 min · dir. John Fawcett · IMDb ↗IMDb5.340%In an attempt to pull her family together, Adèlle travels with her young daughter Sarah to Wales to visit her father. The morning after they arrive, Sarah mysteriously vanishes in the ocean. Not long after, a little girl bearing a striking resemblance to their missing daughter reveals that she has retuned from the dead — and that Sarah has been taken to the Welsh underworld.
